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Real Estate Technology – Do You Trust Digital Signatures

Do you know what a ‘digital signature’ is?  It should not be confused with digital certificates. Digital signatures are also not scanned images of your written signature. Real estate technology is such now that special digital signatures can be used to ‘sign’ documents and these digital signatures are legally binding – in fact, they can [...]

E-Signatures And Real Estate Contracts

We really are moving into a technology phase in our society considering the recent news that e-signatures are now acceptable for real estate contracts. Inman News has the story and their opening paragraph really says it all: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced that the Federal Housing Administration will accept e-signatures [...]